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7 1.1 I I) 4 ' 111 , -' :4 LSt 3 rite't o:t it $ Lets' je rs, o[ ol t ta ke ;0 13 11 06 0 01 Ysl‘ )u tGs• 4 foY son° that et, r, It. ade of t-tb3r. 101 1 Z,' NAVAL NEWS. PLYStoUTH, SEPT: s.—Anked his N,ijesty's ship ; ei ne, of 36 g un s , C i pt. A T KINs.,. from the Coast of - , ace,_ with an American schooner, bound from ene riffe to London, with a cargo of wine, which She re -captured, having been token by a•Frnch pri vateer.. Ar rived the Prussian brig,. Meinhart Christok e, C4II.I,STIAN FRANTZEN, master, from - Malaga acid Gibraltar, laden With shumac, almonds,' &c. bound to Lndon; put into this Port tor orders, and is in w ant of provisions; the Sisters, Gias ; Favourite, r "um ; and Providence, BROWN, from Wales ; Ant, MAY, from Chepstow ; the Roper, THOMAS, fro m Scilly ; the brig . John and Mary, WALTON,. i I lia' , set, f, OM Pr ince Edward's Island, with a cargo o f limber for i Ills Port. Went into Harbour his Majesty's ship Aber, CrOrnti e. S llied the illoristawn hired brig, with a convoy fOr W les ; and the KLeine Anna for Guernsey ; and the Dragon, a>nTEN, for New-Yor The , American schooner re-captured by the Seine,. i 3 the Retsy and Polly, Ca . pt. Owatsl4,. The ship Amelia,.)eand for London, Capt. CRAIG, It o 'I) Demerara, w ith'a' cargo of sugar. coffee, and tott °n, for London, was totally lost with her cargo, 41 Sc illy, on the 31 ,t nit. ; crew and passengers P URTSMOUTH, Seri. 6.—Arrived the Adventure,, tr m Newea , tle ; Betsey, Wtt.soN, from Petersburgh, bound to Salem, with a cargo of zlSailed the George, HUBBARD, for Newcasile 3 ' 4 / 4 s, HARRISON ; v ts, from. Sunder- S HEEntslesg, Sepr. his 111i.ij:_!sty's with a convoy to Hdiguiand H a Majesty's ship Alacedonian w paid bounty " two months advance, aucl sailed to Poris -41'); h.• 132 L, SEPrf. G.—Arrived several ship's . from .the • er, and retn.tin. eirrived, 'sa led fm the River, The Sisters, o e /4ss of Bedford, and the Two ,E,Lizus, Isom ; the John; from. Teneritie ;Land the Suf. .16 froln M irtiti'q tr.. GALLii.‘7' EXPLOIT. f r ' Attaas FEn. 17.—8 y the arrival of the Venus, v e: 4 •Petting, we team that a must gallant and i6e ful actic.ii has been fought Lieutenant k -1 0i t k, • • M , • "L,, his .:ijesky , s sloop Diana, of I 2.twelve , , •t) 1 )a " the t.t th of September, p=rceiving .a Dwelt „ brig . 16 gas and 47 men in the bay lying under. the protection of a tort, ,e z ( , l ( ''Yed' her out, tacked, and bought her ,to close a t ; and notwiihstan ;ing the.stiperiority of force, 4 1 . the of five gait-boats, which had been ' e lled:for the pnrpoie, he sui:ceeded in capturing 1 . 11 , th e most_ gallant And superior style. e Diana had outy two 'men) wounded. Tho " f the &phi, e was the . First Lieutenant and a killed, and the Commander and one 111,'I V. Minded. 1 Snssex Road is all bustle, in consequence ,of ladyN• ~iarrie<i lrwi n, cloned on Tuesday with a . , 4 ter, Siroude, miles ClOcilester. tairAtigniite was the daughter 14 ',Alum); who married a Gentle- Yt. ars ° t . i.r;une, of the name of about three `lgo, she being eighteen at that tune. No idea turned of the cause.. of her absence t't6in a 4 1 1 e. l L fna rld and two young children - , eXcepting that li t4t lad listened to the seductive rheto:tc olher t i ho is not even kno.xn to the, laisband. jnc 11 ;iq r were traced-to an inn at Dorking, which they la,about foui land-billydescribing the t. ) :; l 4r e in,circulatioti, \villa: invite her to retuuti undera promise of forgiveness. . 0 • SMITHFIELD MARK. , FT, Seer. 7. ' dsy's Market had an ineonderable supply ri t4 : l " - ient kind 3 of Cattle ; Lamb is cheaper, than la st repo - v . ; Beef, Mutton, Port . ; and Veal, ‘4 l '"rt I:ut .priet..s.; and the trade kir the most part l Ae: ' ° 'hewhat . flat.—The sales in the Hay Market I nth . trg ; Hay and Clover sold at last prices ; litl'ers are‘%. has fallan ac cuen in price.—The follong prices and rate.sta!ementwi b eef . To Sink tne offal perstone of Elba' t4. IS; Bd. to ss. 4d. Mutton 4s. Bth so ss. 4d. Veal ~1164 . " ) -7s: od. York ss. od. to 7b. cd. Lamb 4s: cd; to 630. Sheep and Lambs 3,609. Calves 'lto. Pigs SMITHFIELD HAY-MAREET. z 4. 51 ' 0(1. to VA os. ud. Siraw zI. ics. cd. to 31. t.:lover 61. los. oti. to tot. eos. oU. th e ottN_E XCHANGE, SEPT. 7.-:—There are sevenl 1 : 11, 11 : r arrivals of Wheat to-day, with contiderable to . ; nd, sales are very hea y, and rather give way in Barley and Malt little variation; While tit , s crl r f la , tilv at last prices Giey, and Beans of each Y J kils fiu - duate but Intl, ; the' quantities of 1. 4 r se a re somewhat con s iderable, and ihis article, tl o cul l'l and interior qualiti s; is cheater; sales tiV ur at th e l ast re d uct i on.. • • i 4 eAt. kilt Ow 4) 7is a bils a rocs Tick Beans -44 s a sos - Ye 1 • h - - 10,4 4 I 1 0 $ t )41, 2OS 2.p a 28:: - - 36. a 4ab Pviatid ditto - 3cs a 34:.. 3iis a 41- i °woe ditto 3bs a -e p ea -72 s a aos Rape Seed • - 5,i a 551 i - se - 463 4 523 I inc i:Jur bis a yot . ' 3 / 4 4) - - 4b) a Seconds - tioa a Isis sos a soN Cia,CL7 7'24 GAZETTE EkTRAD.RD,WI?)r. MONDAY ; MARCH 19,_ 1810. GENERAL t.ltllt P.S. BY THE RIGHT HONOURABLE THE GCIVERNOR-pENE- LIAL IN COUNCIL. Fint St. Geor,e, March 3, tSio, Tbe following Extracts of Lettcrs from the-Hon. the Court of Directors. Co -the Hon. Governor. in Council, dated the . isth aod 29th of September, 1809, are published. _ EXTRACT ,OF . A LETTER FROM THE HON. THE COURT OF 'DIRECTORS, DATED - 1.5T11 SEPT. 1800. ParO. 2. Vie have received your letters of the 2.oth and 31st January, 3d and 28th of February,' 1809, together with their several inclosurea,'ind view with the deepest concern s' the transadti3Ons thus brought under our . consideration. • 3. We - have at all iimes entertained A just sense of the merits and , services of the Officers of our army, - and hare taken every proper oppOrtunity to evince thatsense and our consequent regard and at tachment to their int( rests. 4. Of this habitual and deep-rooted sentiment we had repeatedly given the Most nnequivOcal proofs, and particularly in our 'late instructions touor Go vernments abroad, in support of the fair preten-' sions of our Officers to posts of honour - add com mands ; thuS endeavouring to reneer the periods of their 'services in India both honourable and advan . tageous ; whilst the ample provision made t.,r, their ' retirement in Europe, at an imarense and - indefinite expellee,. affords an instance of the regard and libe rality of their employers, not to be paralleled in any other . service. In atd of this last-mentioned ob jet% we hale very recently (in answer to. some of .the last dispatches to Madras and Bengal) made .liberal donations to the funds established at those Presidencies tor the maintenance and support of dis tressed Offic.Jrs, their w ives.• and fainilivs. • 5. Whilst, however, , we are thus attentive, on the one hand, from sentiments not of justice and ii berality only, but of attachment and esteetu,-to the interests and j , ,st pretensions of our Officers, we • must not, on the other hand, lOse sight of the ne cessity and paramount (inty imposed upon of suportiug the aut - tiority of the Government under which those Otficernerve. b. The support of the supreme authority of our sevetai Governments in India -is essektai to the preservation of those Governments, to the main-, tenain.e of civil older, to the protection of society, and even to ti.e well-hciing and existence'of the ar9.y itself. 7. We are at, all times desirous to pay due regard to the representations of our °dicers, and eittenie ly unwilling to impute censuraule or u ik,voith) rho- Ives to any of their actions ; out it is impossible for, us to c nsider ,their conduct, in the traosae.ions now brOtignt before us, ottterise than as highly improper and 8. It appears from the papers now brought under our Lonsideration, that about the mouth of June; 1807, your Quatter-M.ister-General,• Leutenant-• Munro, in obvdience to' the orders of our - then Comm.in,:er in Chief at Ecirt St. George, Sir Joon tvt adoek (, hid) orders were commnoicated tl;e Q.Liartvr-M...sterhGeneral by a letter of the 7til of febeuary, mirk d private anl 6ontidential,) suu- . milted to his consideration and appreval, a paper, purpoiting 144 he a plan for the provision of aild'the cartiage of the tents and st.lcs of native cdrps; which articles had previous! ) bean plied by a contrw.t with the Comaiatiding Otfiet of those corps respuoti.ely. • 9. This Paper was soon afterwards laid before the Governor in Council by Sir John Cradock, who stated in the minute Which accompanied it, that "it would bc. superfluous in the.extretne to urge at any length the validity of the argutnents set firth in the (.4.uarter-MirSter-Getierdl's Report, as he might say they Cu Verdi, the result of their joint r6tiections upon the subject; and ere the issue of that expe rience whio aruse from their tespective siinations.". h Was approved by. Mr. Petrie, then President, '. hu ,observed in his minute, on considering that Paper—;hat the result of matey of. the statements which he hid delivered in 1803, when•he-oppased the opinions of: General Stuart, who biought for ward the naeaiiute .of the Tent Contract, nadbeen by the experience of past years completely verified, as well as the ap h ;rehensiOns he ex,,,es,ed that both the public and individuals would sutler by thatar tangement. • 10. The plan, so approved. " Was, - together. with thelieport,. w tacit stated the ground of , it, trans mitted to the Government • of ',Bengal.; and being - rel,lll% , ed with 'their complete approbation Attd sauL-; turn, was adopted by the G. vett:mem ,of Fort St. G. urge, and via, in consee,uLl , ce published to the army, 'and carried -into effect 1113 y, I 8.08. IJ. On toe 26th of September,' 1808, a -cflarge wi!stransmiticd to the Head-Quarters of the army against. Lteut.-Cc_ionel Munro, 'signed by the Orli .ers the'n in command of ttve rrsiniews Nattve Cavalry, and 23 b:ittalions .of Native Infantry, for, conduct unbecoming the character of an Officer and a Gentlom,al, in having, in his proposed plan for the . abolition ut the Tent Contract, lately held by Officers commanding Native corps, made : use of false and infamous in,inuations therety tending to injure their cnkracters'as'Ofticers, and oilierwisc; in jurious to their reputations as Gentle.iien ;"• and upon this charge, Lieutenant-Colonel Munro 20111 Jantriry,. 1809, ordered into arrest, by.. Lieutenant-General Mactiowall. ' 12. The cnarge thus preferred against ihe Quar ter-Master-Gen.:rat appars to have been 'found on c e rtain expressions in has report, whichliad received, the sanction and approbation of all the authorities In India competent to decide upon it. Adulating fur a moment that these expressions had been ex ceptionable, deference to ittuse - authorities ought to have imposed torbearance—Oificeis who thought themselves aggrieved by them, were at liberty to. ,Clopt a line of conduct which might have afforded them an opportunity of - vindicating then own Audi- . vidual characters, without departing from then respect for those authorities which they Were bound to obey. • 13. If any Officer thought himself alluded to or aggrieved by any thing that Colonel Munro had said,. might era.iiy lave repelled the supposed imputa tion by .16manjing that, if. fie WerP.suspette, lie sholnd be bro'i.ht upon it.—Governtnenc wotiki then eith-1 -- r aye granted ; 21 Cvurt Nintiat, or vrttld I,avc ticcally and public - 1v fic‘lared that pa' Imptitation rt-s[el Opon.uch . ..„ - , 14. Each individnal_Offict-r w,,uld-.loi - N bad ad undoubiedright to have demanded suchaciearanee Or 'trial tor hint-.e.11;' but an Offi , .:e.: in comtniind of one prOcuiar corps cannot, 'the nature ut thlng.s x Undertake to answer for the condus.t of an Oificel command of another corps, ,far removed, pc.rnaps,l, from hip possible - obserlmrwa s mm:h le fur.a whole body of such Oftieels'so Clicutnstan, 15. The character of:each•indiv id i.,l must . be dis -kind and p..trticulat and . comb nation, .therefore, - of many Off - kers to repel. insinuations (supposing such to "have I:teeti advanced), agiiiiist-tintialned viduals of their body or class, respecting whose coun duct the :personal knoWledge or' the Menibers ge neially of that body could not etiabo'c them to spt:4lk, 'does not heeinto be founded - 'in any principle of equity ; • nor - would it • be justified' by alleging that general insinuations against •the whole body, , but pointing' to no Officer by name,: could ;not' be met in any other matiner'i• tor the obvious course to '-be folio% ed in that case would •still be; that every Officer who. conceived hiS charaater -to 'be brought into question shouts .desire. to haVe -Ins own. conduct separatOy investigated. • - 16. But we (are the; more astonished at their prOCeeding, wheti we consider •the expressions which have, been assigned as the .ground of the charge. Detached ;IS.. they have been :from their context, they still appear to us to be couched in the. usual stile of offi'cial discussion,` and to be as far from conveying any..imputation against individual 'charac ters, 'a's the' minutes of Sir John Cradock' and Mr Petrie, by whiCh the plate waysupported. But when they are considered as they actually stand in the pa per prepared by Colonel Munro, forming a part of the.chain of reasoning, founded upon 'general prin ciples, it appears to us that no;inference can fairly be drAwn- fro d, them unfavourable to the character atilt Madtas'armyi .17. While, therefore, we condemn the conduct of the Officers who . preferred this charge, we ap prove of the terms in which you lave stated your opinion of the grounds of it in. your General.Oiders of the 6tti of 'February. It .was a•proper attention to their feeling,, anti still more to the feelings of !host Officers who had_ no share in that irregular ant unjustifiable proceeding, to declare in a public clo,.:64nent that nu injurious. imputations upon. their previous Conduct were :conceived by the Governor in Co.incil to have been intended in the report . bf. Colonel -,• . . 18. Wo c, nut ,dismiss this part . without observh,g, that the circu;nstances of the ,case oelore us I.lvolve a ques.ii,ti of the gratest•irn• portanc,:—tia• claim of individuals‘Who way think thsniseives agrived.i.l the oputkilS or reflections of an Otte-t of he Govertimelit, comtnumeated , hy bin to 0. ecin:ne,.. to thoordtrs of his superiors, and iu the dischiug. , : of li.s oftiCial duty, to in Aug such Officers to trial tor hose contniunicat jolts. . If persons nolding- • respnnsiblesanations were IU.A: o • ex, oaed. to the . vexation .and 'ignominy of pub if,al,wirenever they. way, in the.diseharge their onii IA duties, have delkered opinions adverse. to, the sentiments or even the itW rest of any part of. tueservice, it will be impossible for such persons to' do then duty. to the :pubirc. in-any insiance•which may, int erfere with. these seutimehts or interestsl to give, upon. any que-tion; a • fair and. honest opt tP!'ll, if that opinion may, by ihference or constraill ed 'aiplical ion, be construed into a criminal itisintni-• tiou•4,tgainst•the.charricter and condutt of individuals.• If _snch d . claim „could. ne maintained—it the prac tice.which h inculcates Were. to • prevailit would , • pusan gird .at once to all.. official confidence, and lear e the Government without- t; , e means of obtain-. ing information respetting existivg errors, defects, or abuses, of of forming plans for the correttion (Wilily - arrangements winch have a. tendency to produce . them. We thought it .necessary to state these. ininciples generally and • broadly, because we are deeply impressed with a &mse-of their null) and .inportance. Wth respr.tt he . particular case of Ml•arro, it may ..beobserved,that the communication , . , as nut, only official, bui . minden insertionin the records of Government was no aft of his, 'but the, a!A of the Counnandet. Chief, ‘ Bywhat means the paper became publie, Nve:have.l - 10 authtti:tic urf.?cmation ; no reason what , 'ever has appeared for , supposing that priblicity was owing. to the Quarter Master General. Were we, a“piainted„ with the channel through which it became public, and was afterwairls cncuhaed through the different: stations of the army, at the puisible hazard (though we trust not withthe-direct view) of creating df.content, 'iro,t4iti thitik it necessary to mark such a breach of confidence with our high disapprobation, . 2tt. It appears, further, how the 30th paragraph of your letter of . - the 29th Janoady, 1809, that • the• " Qttice, - s who had preferred the charges•against the' :Quarter Genaal of the aitify, had, in • conse . quence of thedeclared sentiments of the Judge Advocate General rcgardtng. their illegality, request ed that the Commander in Cui f would suspend the prosecution of them." Weare induced, from this statement, to lnduige hope that the 0a ers - who had giyerriti those cilaq;rs agattist the Quarter Mas-. ter General, had. beconi4 sensible of the M.:propriety of, having cf,ried them; and this consideration, if. it should,,turn out to be 'well • founded, may re lieve us float the' disagriecable necessity of taking • further notice of their 'misconduct in this resped. • 21. Haviug considered. the proceeding of the aneers who preferred. the charges against Lieut.- C'ol. Munro, we COl.llO now to notice the conduct of Lieutenant-General Macdnwail, our late Corn '-tnaticler in Chief at Fort St. George; in relation to this affair. 22. We enter upon this task with extreme con cern, not only because we feel reluctance in pass ing any animaditersion upon an Officer, who has, atter long services in India, filled so high a' situa tion; but :4cause it has been urged by some of his friends, that we ought to wait lOr any justification be might . wish to over of his own .conduct. To this laic suggestion, although his proceedings at Fot t St..(;eorge do not indicate any mention' of .appealing to us., we shoUld have been willing, and even anxious to attend, if, : we did not. consider .tht.liis case. was fully before us, by his, own :public tocu merits upon' record, .and if we_d:d not deem it es sensiq to tlieoeace and' i4uthoft uf our G6vurn meat, that .no time should .be lost in deciaring onr sentiments . upon pointv•-•wineb—have-been brought into question by thr public acts of the, Officer; *to ti ose public.atis aloneand.chietly in'resi ect to the bearingS they nave upot bur pres e nt and future lute rests,,our .attentiou..will • -- - . 23. It appears that Lieutenant-Generl Atac-i dowall,. notwithstanding he bad beta officiaily torined by the Jiidge Aclirocate-Geherdf ; ' t oleo legal adviseri - that- those chargrtrwere-in - their nature idegal, raid, on the 20th January, i 89.9, put Li;:mtenant-Colonel Munro under ar:esr, with the intent that lie should . be brought to trial upon.theni. 24 The obvions reasons - on . which We nave grounded o6r censure •npon. the Officers for •b , :ing- MO . forward those charges, might well be exp ec t e d to have occurred to the mind of Lietitenant-Genefal Maedowall, ,and to have determined. his conduct with respect to them.. But, in • addition to those reason=, the report which had been toaoe upon theta by the Judge Advocate-General 'on; the. 7:h of No tember, 1808, proved' so unanswerably their im propriety. and illegality, andfurnished such strong grounds for considering them a; an unwarrantable attempt to controul the Councils of.anvernment, through • the medium of bringing one of its official advisers' to trial, that' it became the dear Limy of Lieutenant-General. Macdowail to have returned hose charges to the Officers . who had signed theft), with marks ofhis high disPledsure. 25. The Officers who govo in the Charge against Lieutenant-Colonel -Munro naving in their ft•bse-. quent Memorial desired . that the • Commandet iv Chi, f would rsipone the prosecution of them, you have, in the 30th .'paragraph of your l - etter of the 29th of .January, 1809, retna• f,eit; roar it lurt~i,h_ d additional ;round in' aid of all the o her .objee tions to Lieutenant-General MAowall's refraining trom bringing Cofonel `Munro to unit fr,..in them:— In thiS observation,. we entirely concur. It would indeed have•been a high aggravation. of. the impro priety of Lieutenant-General Macdowall's conduct, in putting Lieutenant-Colonel Munro under arrest, on•charges which. the 'Judge Alvocate General had . &clared to be inadmissible, if he persevered in subjecting the Quarter M •st , r General Rya' trial, atter the authors of those . elia:g;'s' 'had themselves acquiesced in the opinion ot: thf4 Judge Advocate General, and reque,tect that the..pakeedings might be suspended: • 26. But - we observe that tie'inenant 7 General %Macdowall, in his lettei dine .t l B t J attua ry , 1809, covering that. Memorial of the Officers, took occaa sion, , clistinetly to remark, that it...:was not before him when he put Lieut e nant. Colonel Munro in at , 'rest on the 20th of that mon+. 27. As, however, a •paper of that .description, which was to.be 'circulated fur signature, was likely to become known whilst _in prepara:ion, it would have heen. more satisfactory, to us to have been in formed, that no inlinall'on - Whaiever concetning it had reached Lieutenant-Gener.,l; Macdo , .vall. when he put Lieutenant-Colonel.lViouro under arrest. . 28. Wising- liitS viv- Ceed to observo, - that Macdo instead of censuring and suppressing thoce charges, as we think' it was the duty of tbe Commander in Chief to have done, adopted them and pursued their object, by subjecting Lie*natit 7 Cotonek Mauro . to 'the ignominy of an arrest,' w ith a view to his being brought to trial upon them. 'it tweame then, in our . opinion; the bount'en (buy or our Governor in.. Council at Fort. St. George to interpose the dired authority of Government tut - the protection Of Lieut. Col. Munro, by requiring ,the Commander iu Chief to release that Officer from the wrest in which he had. placed him. 29, To haVe permitted Lieutenant-Colonel Munro to be brought to trial, fcr sentiments and bta temen ts delivered by him in his official ca; acity, in obedience to the orders of our former Con,ma.ider IL) Cbiet at Madras, Sir John Cradock„ by whom - th, , y 9.• ere adopted as . his own, as they were also approved, sanctioned, -and, enforced by the local and supreme Governments, would have been; not.merely to with hold protettion • frotn a meritorious Officer, in. the discharge of his indisputable duties, but to have brought. into question,'and in fact subieeted to trial, the character and acts of the former Commander in Chief, Sir John Cradocki and even those of the q vernmeuts themselves. 30. We consider the General Ord . e.r.left by Lieut; General AbedOwill for.put.;lication; on hs (pitting Madras,• as a high ,aggravation of his previous mis conduct, of having put Lreut.-Colonel IVlunro der an arrest, upon charges in so many ways objec tionable, which his constituted law kldvi ser had told him were illegal, and which the accusers thetuselt es had desired to withdraw. ETo' be continucq.] On Wednisday a Court of Directors was held at the• East India House, when Messrs. R. and I'. WESTROPP, Merchants, were appointed she Com:- . pany's Agents at Limerick, in the room of Mr. DENNIS LYONS. • • • A dreadfUl accident happened to. fhe - New Lincoln coach on Wednesday last : whilst stopping in the town of Biggleswade, the horses were alittned by 'the passing oi•a load of Sheep-skins piled to some height on the back Of an asg. , The smell pf the skins stem .d,to offend 'them, for they all four held up their beads, breathed hard, and furiously . set" off with the driver, in consequence of.the sudden jerk, dropped the reins, and in endeavouring fo recover' them, fell between the horses 'and . the coach, the wheels of which - passed over him,' and killed him instantly. In a minute's time the coach came in contad with a post, and was overturned. There Were five outside and two inside passengers; one of the former number was severely cut and btuised about the thigh by one of the wheels ; the other passengers were little hurt. The unfortunate coach man's name was Newberry; he has left a wile arid five- children at Baldock to lament his loss. We have heard with concern that Miss Phipps, a young lady of Peterborough, who, in a donate' state of health; was travelling in the coact) at the time of the accident, died in ; twelve btiurs after, in consequence of the fright. I